The repetition of this famous biblical phrase suggests an immediate connection between Eru and God. ... The allusion is also extended beyond just the creator. ... They are defined as "Holy Ones" and the allusion is completed with the fall of Melkor for coveting power beyond his allotment. ... These biblical associations solidify the notion of Melkor as the ultimate Evil. ... There are a number of possible biblical corresponding elements. ...

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The use of allusion and inter-textuality are further features that Yeats employs in his works to reflect his response to the inevitability of change in a modern world. ... This recognition is particularly evident in his allusion to the Celtic myth, "The Children of Lir" in his poem "The Wild Swan at Coole". ... The biblical allusion to the "blood-dimmed tide" from Revelations also serves to describe the horrors of WWI. Hybridity of such allusions is also employed in the evocation of the "Spiritus Mundi" which conflates the traditional Christian notion of...

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Throughout the novel, biblical allusions are made, but almost all are so indirect that they often go unnoticed by the reader. ... To further add to it's biblical significance, The Grapes of Wrath is written in much the same style as the King James Bible. ... Another significant biblical allusion is the fact that the novel starts out in the drought of the Midwest in the late 1930s, and ends in flood. ... This division of the novel corresponds to the three stages of the biblical Exodus: the Israelites" time in bondage; the forty years of wandering in the desert wilderness; and the arriv...

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Some of the biblical symbols he uses are in his characters which have qualities similar to people from the bible, and in parts of the Joad family s travels. ... Steinbeck uses many biblical symbols in this novel aside from the grapes. ... The flood at the end of the novel is also a biblical reference meaning that God is angry with the evil of the world and must use something to end it. ... Through biblical symbolism, Steinbeck drew in well-known allusions to help the reader better understand his themes. ... Many similarities to the bible become apparent in the description of the Joads'...

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The biblical allusion creates a visual image of the duration of his affection. ... " Marvell uses mythical allusion to represent an abstract of his idea of time as he reiterates the bliss they would experience if they simply seized the day; reveling in what time they had left by pursuing the consummation of their marriage. ... "Which, stretcht upright, impales me so" Through the use of religious allusion the composer refers to the image of the crucifixion of Jesus. ... A body that could never rest" this paradox is once again referring to the same idea of death and purgator...

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There were many allusions to works of literature; these allusions meaningless to readers who are not familiar with the works. ... Frankenstein was written for highly educated people who would understand the allusions in it. There were also allusions to alchemists that Frankenstein read. ... More people were able to read, but could not understand all of the allusions of the highly educated Romantic writers. ... There are fewer literary allusions in this work because it was written for less educated people. ...

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Through techniques of metaphor, imagery and allusions, Yann Martel employs both major and minor events in the book to suggest that both religion and science are necessary in Pi's character development, both to sustain himself in critical situations and broaden his knowledge of reality. ... Moreover, Pi's use of allusion to naturally make a biblical reference to the Virgin Mary "mother of Jesus Christ "suggests the purity and kindness of the orangutan. ... Here, an allusion is made when Pi decides to write about Isaac Luria, the "sixteenth-century [Jewish] spiritualist"" (3)...

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King also used allusions that stand out. ... While his speech included allusions that everyone could relate to, his letter brings up the words of T.S. ... In order to achieve this, he used many biblical references like, "I would agree with St. ...

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As they drifted through the ocean the two women began to sing the hymn 'Jerusalem' which creates a biblical allusion of hope and strength. ... The low angle shot of a statue of Jesus symbolises hope and power because he is a great biblical figure. ...

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However, the parallels to the biblical Garden of Eden can also be determined as quite the opposite of their equivalents in the Bible. ... Adding to his feelings of perception of some innate evil in Beatrice are Baglioni's urgings and allusions. ... In a weird twist on the Biblical garden of Eden, Giovanni is the unknowing Eve, offering Beatrice the elixir of life which, when as in the biblical account, as she partakes of it, "in that day" she will "surely die." ...

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The way that the leaders used biblical allusions to justify their objectification of women evidences how a language structure can be manipulated by an author or authors to persuade people to accept their point of view. ... All the stores have biblical names: Loaves and Fishes, All Flesh, Milk and Honey. Even the automobiles have biblical names like Behemoth, Whirlwind, and Chariot. Atwood's mocking tone in the sections where the men use Biblical law as a justification for their actions and the formation of the Gilead regime. ... I feel that by justifying their actions as being based o...

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They live in a romantic allusion. ... Baz Luhrman has chosen to cut out Shakespeare's biblical and mythological allusions and replaced them with references to contemporary social issues that the audience can relate to far more easily. ...

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Moreover, the abundant and frequent allusions to classical mythology and literature, to Biblical mythology to contemporary literatures, frequent Latinism and inversions, and above all the frequent use of Homeric similes, idioms of the other tongue, all contribute to the sublimity and grandeur of Milton's style. ... Though certain objection have been raised against it, such as lack of war, unhappy ending, having only two human characters; others heavenly machinery, the introduction of allegorical persons like sin and death, the frequent allusions to heathen mythological figures which are i...

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Cummings uses such literary devices as symbolism, imagery, allusion, and syntax to show that the speaker of the poem has just experienced a rebirth.The speaker is thanking God for allowing him to see life in a new light and to be reborn again for a fresh start.By using these various literary devices, Cummings is able to show the extreme gratefulness the speaker in the poem feels because he has found a new outlook on life. ... Relating to the religious theme of spiritual resurrectionis the allusion to Jesus Christ in line six.The sun in "and this is the sun's birthday- can be seen ...

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead, where there is no path and leave a trail". Peter Skrzynecki, in the poems Crossing the Red Sea and Immigrants at Central Station; David Moore in the photograph Immigrants Arriving Sydney 1966; Kenneth Graeme's novel Wind in the Willows and Roberto Beni...

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In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the Creature is described by society as a heartless fiend capable of unleashing havoc due to his grim, horrific appearance, and is often dubbed as a monster. However, the true definition of a monster is one who commits malicious acts for personal gain and ...

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In Shelley's Frankenstein' the encounter between Victor and his creature is charged with Biblical allusions: like Adam, the creature has been forsaken by his creator. ... Dracula uses many biblical references and shows a true resemblance between Dracula and anti-Christian beliefs. ...

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This will be discussed with reference to his personal experiences, his style of writing, allusions to religion and the Bible, his childhood, his marriages, and Steinbeck's passion for writing about important issues. ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ...

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The biblical passages also contain the familiar instruction not to judge others lest you be judged. ... In Measure for Measure's first scene there is an allusion to the new king James I's nervous dislike of 5 crowds. ...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by an artist. The pride and appreciation exhibited in the work of art for the human physique demonstrated the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance. Humanism was not only a "respect for the individual, independent thought ", and the human body, but was an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on...

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Biblical and spiritual references are used throughout the story to describe various events, particularly in the later of the novel. ... She compares Frankenstein to Lucifer, as he "who like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence", he "is chained in an eternal hell", Shelley uses this literary allusion to show Frankenstein as an angel who has fallen from grace. ...

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Flannery O"Conner says, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", but I think it's the other way around. A good woman is what's really hard to find. What happened to the image of the genteel southern lady who was the embodiment of everything that is considered womanly, beautiful, and serene by the Souther...

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An apt allusion, he overwhelmed is by the city he is sent to. ... Mary, the mother figure as implied by her Biblical name, arrives to restore the narrator to life so that the robin can function in his reconstructed world. ...

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